Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balked by a Coast Guard cutter in his attempt to reach Florida by canoe, Richard W. Hourtley '40 returned yesterday afternoon to his mother at Darien, Connecticut...
Coach Clark Hodder's Freshman sextet invades Belmont Hill tomorrow afternoon in an attempt to repeat its 5 to 1 win over the schoolboys in December...
...definite incitement to war. Preceded by a resounding ballyhoo of advance publicity the pictures seem definitely keyed to a war hawkian pitch. Few will deny the American people the right to see the pictures, but it is hardly too much to ask that the producers do not attempt to stir up a war fever in an effort to sell their pictures...
Dean Holmes urged cooperative study of this problem by the Faculty of Education, and other faculties at Harvard. "It is even possible that the attempt to assist in determining what can and should be taught in schools concerning schools can and should advise and guide economic and occupational life and how schools can and should advise and guide their pupils into occupations might be enlightening to those who are dealing directly with the economic and political problems of the world," he believed...
Somewhere between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras 17-year-old Richard W. Heurtley, Jr., erstwhile member of the Class of 1940, is padding his own canoe in a desperate attempt to reach Florida...